Example sentences of "[vb mod] have had [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How unexpected , therefore , that Libya should have had such frequent elections — events which are the typical political rituals of party democracies . |
| 2 | They should have had more definite targets , because it was a bit , everyone , at one point everyone was doing the same thing , , through the words which |
| 3 | Entry Requirements : Besides a First or Second Class Honours degree or its equivalent , applicants should have had some prior programming experience . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone in overall charge of training who should have had some formal training in that field themselves ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ She must have had such high hopes and now they have been dashed . ’ |
| 6 | I suppose he must have had more orthodox items in his wardrobe but I never saw them . |
| 7 | Scotland was an unhappy country in the late seventeenth century , partly for reasons beyond the control of politicians or merchants ; the climate grew steadily harsher , for these were the worst years of the ‘ little ice age ’ that ran from 1500 to 1850 and must have had some general effect of encouraging emigration from Europe . |
| 8 | Blanche sensed his dislike must have had some personal grounds . |
| 9 | So Balder Head must have had some architectural significance or other , although I doubt if anyone in the dale realized it . |
| 10 | Heather must have had some compelling reason to follow in the direction they led , yet what that reason might be he was no nearer discovering . |
| 11 | Must have had some bad cider on the lunchtime . |
| 12 | But it was a considerable enterprise and it must have had some considerable justification . |
| 13 | She must have had this whole floor bricked up from the outside . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I now have a wonderful little boy who is absolutely perfection , ’ she says , ‘ I know I might have had another wonderful child but I would have been riddled with doubt for most of its life . ’ |
| 15 | Look at the material he could have had this past year . |
| 16 | First , birds performing the appropriate actions could have had more surviving offspring than those making less good nests ; consequently , in the course of time , genes necessary for the expression of the appropriate actions spread through the long-tailed tit population . |
| 17 | Early life on Earth may have had many false starts — as many as ten — with each based on a different biochemistry . |
| 18 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 19 | They included weapons , jewellery , and objects which may have had some symbolic significance , whether religious or royal . |
| 20 | She may have had some outdoor work as well , such as feeding poultry . |
| 21 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
| 22 | The Woods ' speech also introduced an important new argument which may have had some considerable effect on Irish voters . |
| 23 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 24 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 25 | Again , I do not feel she would have had any disposable income from her grant at college or part time earnings . |
| 26 | The novelist , William Hale White , felt that some of the men he had known before being expelled from a Congregational theological college ‘ would have had more genuine lives if they had stood behind counters or learned some craft than they ever had in the ministry ’ . |
| 27 | The decision to include a drunken , singing poet in The Fairy Queen — a ‘ Scurvy Poet ’ , indeed — would have had more topical point in the spring of 1692 ( with anti-Durfey pamphlets fresh in the memory ) than in 1693 ( when tempers had cooled ) . |
| 28 | Now if we 'd have the voice of the Funny Man guessed we would have had some postal contestant winners , but they now go back in the box with those yet to come in the next week . |
| 29 | Since few actuaries will have had much practical experience of teaching before becoming tutors these notes have been prepared to give you some guidance towards helping students most effectively in the context of the tuition system . |
| 30 | The subject may be dealt with in passing by gynaecologists , urologists , and pathologists , but , in general , the newly qualified doctor will have had little cohesive training . |